flyleaf
Americannoun
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flyleaves
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of flyleaf
1825–35; fly 2 (noun, in combination: something fastened by the edge) + leaf
Example Sentences
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After trimming the nib, the scribe would usually test the pen on a blank piece of parchment or flyleaf to make sure that his letters were legible.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
In 1993, his lawyers succeeded in forcing the publisher of a book by Harry Hurt III, “Lost Tycoon,” to add an explanation of the encounter on the book’s flyleaf.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
The front flyleaf of the psalter in front of de Hamel and Poleg had long been missing.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2020
It wasn’t until they started comparing stories, pinning flyleaf notices to lampposts, that the scale of the problem became clear.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020
The hands tore the flyleaf and then the first and then the second page.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
Coupled with the book's status as an enduring object, it makes sense that readers felt drawn to write their names or doodle in the margins and flyleaves of these books.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect!
From Time Magazine Archive
As evidence they introduced 1,000 Bibles with family histories on the flyleaves, old letters, snuff boxes, muskets, a muzzle-loading shotgun, other heirlooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the flyleaves at the end Mary wrote in July 1814— This book is sacred to me, and as no other creature shall ever look into it, I may write what I please.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
Many such naïve and explicit records as that on the drawing which Raphael sent him are to be found in the flyleaves of books and on the margins of prints and drawings, his possessions.
From Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
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